The one
position I disagree with Peter Schiff on, is his advocacy to shutdown the USPS.
Schiff for a
long time has advocated shutting down the Post Office for as long as he has
kept a video blog.
His reasons range
from mass financial loses to how it's being managed.
Although
Schiff is good with numbers and how the U.S. Government ought to get their
balance sheets back in order, he apparently does not understand the Post Office
in all its incarnations is tied in with the U.S. Constitution, as specified in Article
I, Section 8: "Congress has the power...to establish Post Offices and Post
Roads."
Which in
short clarifies that the only business the U.S. Government is authorized to run
is the Post Office.
From its
inception, the Post Office was supposed to be another way of keeping the government
accountable. If the government couldn't deliver your mail on time unhampered, the
people had every right to redress government accordingly.
Even if the
Post Office somehow goes bankrupt, which it has, all the government can do is
restructure it and resume operations.
So in order
for Schiff to have his way with closing up the Post Office for good, he would
either have to shut down the government or amend the U.S. Constitution.
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